Lothar Kilian (12 October 1911 – 12 March 2000) was a German archaeologist and linguist, who researched Balts, Germanic peoples and the Proto-Indo-European homeland.

Biography Lothar Kilian was born in Nidden, Prussia, Germany, (after 1919 Memelland (Klaipėda Region), then Nida, Lithuania) on 12 October 1911. He gained his Ph.D. in archaeology at the University of Königsberg in 1939. After World War II, Kilian worked at the University of Bonn and at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. Kilian authored a number of works on the origins of the Balts and Germanic peoples, and the Proto-Indo-European homeland. His studies on these subjects were important. He died on 12 March 2000.

Selected works Haffküstenkultur und Ursprung der Balten, 1955 Zu Herkunft und Sprache der Prussen:, 1980 Zum Ursprung der Indogermanen, 1983 Zum Ursprung der Germanen, 1988

See also Marija Gimbutas J. P. Mallory

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